Meaning and Suffering | Scripture Commentary

Lee Benson discusses and provides scripture commentary for the readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2024.

Reading selection for 5th Sunday Ordinary Time:

- (First Reading): Job 7:1-4, 6-7
- (Pslam): Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-7
- (Second Reading): 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23
- (Gospel): Mk 1:29-39

This episode discusses, explores and examines:

-The nature of hope and despair
-Despair as against man’s nature to desire fulfillment
-Viktor Frankl’s will to meaning
-Happiness as a by product of meaning, not an aim
-Finding purpose and meaning in suffering
-Saint John of the Cross on the necessity of suffering for union with God
-The need to suffer well in hope and faith
-Suffering as a source for humility
-God’s goodness, love, and power revealed in suffering
-How God’s goodness and love can co-exist even with the presence of -suffering
-Suffering brings God to us

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(0:00) Introduction
(0:40) First Reading
(16:35) Psalm
(27:30) Second Reading
(29:42) Gospel

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